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I've recently come across a sentence in an essay I proofread that went something like "Focusing on these experimental and statistical strategies." I thought it wasn't really a sentence and suggested sth. like "I will now focus on ...", "Now I focus on ..." or "We shall now focus on ...".

Now I've stumbled across this sentence starting a paragraph (it's not a heading or something like that) in a British textbook (Hogg & Vaughan, 2013: Social Psychology):

Muzafer Sherif (1936) explicitly linking this convergence effect to the development of group norms.

Is this some participle use I've never heard of to introduce a topic or something like that?

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It looks like a mistake to me. What did the previous sentence say? What you have could be citing a reference required by that previous sentence as in :" [something about convergence(Muzafer Sherif (1936) explicitly linking this convergence effect to the development of group norms).]

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  • There's not really a direct previous sentence as it's the beginning of a new paragraph. The previous paragraph talks about the convergence effect mentioned.
    – MrASquare
    Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 10:38
  • Could it be a kind of sub-heading? They are sometimes formulated using the present participle? But it still looks like a mistake.
    – JeremyC
    Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 11:26
  • Subheadings like this are usually highlighted in some form in this book (other color, italics); the sentence is in the running text. I think you're probably right and it is just a mistake similar to the other one I had seen before.
    – MrASquare
    Commented Feb 10, 2018 at 0:19

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